The Wounded Animal
J. M. Coetzee and the Difficulty of Reality in Literature and Philosophy
(Sprache: Englisch)
In 1997, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist J. M. Coetzee, invited to Princeton University to lecture on the moral status of animals, read a work of fiction about an eminent novelist, Elizabeth Costello, invited to lecture on the moral status of animals at an...
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In 1997, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist J. M. Coetzee, invited to Princeton University to lecture on the moral status of animals, read a work of fiction about an eminent novelist, Elizabeth Costello, invited to lecture on the moral status of animals at an American college. Coetzee's lectures were published in 1999 as The Lives of Animals, and reappeared in 2003 as part of his novel Elizabeth Costello; and both lectures and novel have attracted the critical attention of a number of influential philosophers--including Peter Singer, Cora Diamond, Stanley Cavell, and John McDowell.In The Wounded Animal, Stephen Mulhall closely examines Coetzee's writings about Costello, and the ways in which philosophers have responded to them, focusing in particular on their powerful presentation of both literature and philosophy as seeking, and failing, to represent reality--in part because of reality's resistance to such projects of understanding, but also because of philosophy's unwillingness to learn from literature how best to acknowledge that resistance. In so doing, Mulhall is led to consider the relations among reason, language, and the imagination, as well as more specific ethical issues concerning the moral status of animals, the meaning of mortality, the nature of evil, and the demands of religion. The ancient quarrel between philosophy and literature here displays undiminished vigor and renewed significance.
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ABBREVIATIONS ix CHAPTER ONE: Introduction: The Ancient Quarrel 1 PART ONE: THE LIVES OF ANIMALS 19 CHAPTER TWO: Elizabeth Costello's Lecture: Stories, Thought-Experiments, and Literal-Mindedness 21 CHAPTER THREE: Elizabeth Costello's Lecture: Three Philosophers and a Number of Apes 36 CHAPTER FOUR: Food for Thought: Two Symposia 58 CHAPTER FIVE: Food for Thought: A Third Symposium 69 CHAPTER SIX: Food for Thought: An Uninvited Guest? 95 CHAPTER SEVEN: Elizabeth Costello's Seminar: Two Poets and a Novelist 110 CHAPTER EIGHT: Elizabeth Costello's Seminar: Primatology and Animal Training, Philosophy and Literary Theory 122 PART TWO: ELIZABETH COSTELLO 137 CHAPTER NINE: Realism, Modernism, and the Novel 139 CHAPTER TEN: Costello's Realist Modernism, and Coetzee's 162 CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Body in Africa 184 CHAPTER TWELVE: Evil as Obscenity 203 CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Two Embodiments of the Kafkaesque 214 CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Conclusion: Three Postscripts 231 BIBLIOGRAPHY 253 INDEX 257
Autoren-Porträt von Stephen Mulhall
Stephen Mulhall is fellow and tutor in philosophy at New College, University of Oxford. His books include "On Film, The Conversation of Humanity", and "Philosophical Myths of the Fall" (Princeton).
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- Autor: Stephen Mulhall
- 272 Seiten, Maße: 15,6 x 23,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- ISBN-10: 0691137374
- ISBN-13: 9780691137377
- Erscheinungsdatum: 28.12.2008
Sprache:
Englisch
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"One of the most suggestive discussions of the relations between philosophy and literature that I have ever read, The Wounded Animal is studded with striking insights and penetrating questions."--Tzachi Zamir, author of Double Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama
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